Re: version comparison functions

From:

Stefan Monnier

Subject:

Re: version comparison functions

Date:

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:47:38 -0400

User-agent:

Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> version< is useful for comparing version number strings.
How often does that happen?
And for those rare cases where some piece of elisp code uses a version
comparison, how many of those could advantageously use
a feature-test instead? I thought we'd discussed and rejected such version
comparison functions in the past.
Stefan